On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Michael Goffioul <michael.goffi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: >> In a current situation, a number of gnulib modules compile flawlessly >> on MSVC 9. Therefore it's time to document its current status. >> >> Further fixes for this platform are, of course, welcome. > > For quite some time now, I've been tweaking my local copy of gnulib in order > to compile octave with MSVC. I put the current diff I have (not against the > very latest source, maybe gnulib from about 1 week ago). It is *not* meant > to be a ready-to-use patch, but more to illustrate the problems I had: > - O_ACCMODE is not defined > - PATH_MAX is not defined (though stdlib.h has an equivalent _MAX_PATH) > - ending a path with double slashes lead to problems (don't remember which > ones, but Windows didn't like it) > - MSVC does not support dynamic C array: array size must be a constant, > not a variable > - ssize_t does not exist > - rename m4 test produced filesystem corruption that lead to full recheck on > the next reboot; I had to disable the test completely
Funny :) Do you know why this test does not do this on mingw ? Bastien > I hope this will be useful. > > Michael. >
